Alleged $1.043m Fraud: Court Refuses Fred Ajudua’s Fresh Bail Application

On Wednesday, the Particular Crime Division of the Lagos Crime, which sits in Ikega on Wednesday, refused to grant a brand new assure request submitted by the businessman, Farid Agdwa, who faces a 1.043 million dough trial.
His lawyer, Olikan Ogu (SAN), requested Decide Mogsola Dada to acknowledge him, pending his choice.
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The principle protection lawyer additionally instructed the courtroom that his shopper, who was helped by some medical workers from the Stay College College Hospital (Lute), suffers from a persistent kidney illness.
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Mr. Ojo urged the courtroom to grant his shopper on bail to allow him to affix his well being challenges, saying that solely the neighborhoods can face the trial.
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Nonetheless, the EFCC lawyer, Seidu Atteh, objected to the assure request, saying that the defendant was already earlier than the Supreme Court docket looking for to allocate its earlier ruling and that he ought to have directed his request to that courtroom.
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In his counter -arguments, Mr. Ojo stated that his shopper was not in entrance of the Supreme Court docket of the request on bail, and that there was no hyperlink between the request earlier than the Apix Court docket and the fast request to acquire the assure.
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In her ruling, Decide Dada noticed that she was tending to attend for the end result of the Supreme Court docket’s choice and would decide to her.
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The decide stated: “In mild of the requests submitted within the Supreme Court docket, I’m certain to take any choice relating to this fast request from the protection lawyer. I’ll abide by the selections of the Supreme Court docket.”
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Earlier than deciding on bail, the courtroom listened to a 3rd -prosecutor’s testimony, an investigator in EFCC, AFANDA BASHir Emmanuel.
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The witness instructed the courtroom that he met the defendant in 2005, shortly after the institution of EFCC, and the defendant’s case file was handed over by the Particular Fraud Unit (SFU) to the Nigerian Police Pressure (NPF) to the Fraud Division of Preparation, the place he was working.
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He additionally witnessed that within the context of the investigation, the committee wrote to the police, the Nigerian Central Financial institution (CBN), the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Ltd. (NNPCL) and the forensic laboratory at EFCC to seek for some paperwork within the investigation.
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Protection lawyer rejected a step by EFCC to offer the related paperwork as a information. The lawyer argued that the paperwork weren’t acceptable as a result of they weren’t unique paperwork or actual copies permitted by public paperwork. The lawyer additionally argued that EFCC’s lawyer was not the doc maker and didn’t set any foundation for the info offered.
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After counter -arguments by EFCC lawyer, Decide Dada rejected her ruling, two paperwork and two others admitted as a information as an opponent.
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One other listening to was postponed on October 10 and 31, in addition to on November 20, to permit the defendant’s lawyer to organize to interrogate the witness.
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Farid, who discovered the trial claiming to defraud a Palestinian citizen, elevated Abu Zallaf, with an quantity of 1043,000 {dollars} (a million, forty -three thousand US {dollars}) underneath false allegations.
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The case, which started in 2005 earlier than Decide Mouriniki Odena from the Lagos State Court docket, Ikega, confronted many delays as a consequence of what many described as a authorized approach working on the time by the defendant.
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This difficulty was reset to Decide Josephine Ousouo after which to Decide Mugsola Dada, who was not too long ago summoned on June 4, 2018.
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Following the rejection of the assure by Decide Dada on the time, the Lagos Division appealed the Court docket of Attraction, which granted him the assure on September 10, 2018. It was not happy with the courtroom of the Court docket of Attraction, EFCC appealed the Supreme Court docket.
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The committee additionally submitted a separate attraction that challenges the choice of the Court docket of Attraction to switch the case from Decide Dada to a different decide to begin once more.
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Each instances had been dissolved in favor of EFCC by the Supreme Court docket, which ordered the decide Dada to proceed the case of the case.
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